Overall: D+

I'm so confused about the high ratings for this book.

This is "Saw" but make it based on Escape Rooms. 

BUT...it's not gory or tense or scary or interesting. 

The chapters jump around between characters but for me it fails because the characters are either annoying or uninteresting. 

I hate Lexy with a passion. I understand her motivations and her feelings but sympathy does not mean I should like a character. She's rude, judgemental and unlikeable. Off the bat, she clocks Beau as arrogant just from looking at him.  I'm assuming she's projecting. 

Beau isn't arrogant...just self-absorbed (there is a difference). He does relate everything to experiences he has as a singer which gets annoying. But its just boring. 

Zora is just there and is used as a plot device that does nothing. 

I do feel some sympathy for Tess as she has mental health issues but there's nothing to her either. 

For horror like this to work, you have to convince the audience that the characters are in danger. There has to be a chance that dire consequences might happen to them. I don't want to spoil anything really but one of the chapters pretty much ruins that feeling. 

The positives of this book are the traps themselves were intersting and had potential. The narrators for the audio did a awesome job. I like the author's message about mental health. 

But so far, this is the worst book that I've read this year. It's rushed. It's forced. It's at times cliche. I can't give it slack just because it is young adult book because there are novels in that genre that do horror well.